#State

To take a break from Wiley for a moment, this is hugely disturbing. An executive that regards judicial scrutiny of the lawfulness of its actions as an inconvenience that needs
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We have just completed a narrow, hard fought election. Given the ongoing economic crisis and pandemic, the country should begin the peaceful transfer of power. President Trump has indicated he
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It's a shame that this video has been removed by the BBC - because it demonstrates perfectly how institutions help to generate and sustain state ideology. Wee thread 1/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-53597663/coronavirus-can-rish
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Someone explain Brazil to me. Excess deaths *fell* early in the epidemic, and no metric of any policy or social distancing behaviors predicts the peak in excess deaths now occurring.
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Here is everything you need to know about this saga just in case you were wondering. We bring you a full length conversation with the man behind it all. Before
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Dworkin strenuously opposed all biological definitions of womanhood as the foundational ideology of patriarchy & she explicitly embraced trans women as women BECAUSE we disprove that biological argument. Keep her
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Senator, when you get back, why don't you tell us all about Bain Capital and Ghislaine Maxwell's father? Or shall we dive right into the story of private equity?https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1303036968671080450 You
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Surah Duha was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (saw) at a time when he had not received any revelation for six months. The Prophet (saw) was in a very disturbed
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This is an extremely long, boring thread about data collection but I want to be clear at the outset: When we look at today's abortion figures, we should think about
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This piece by #GeorgePacker in @TheAtlantic is a masterpiece. It opens like this: “When the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them
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#Tivolimassacre I am marking this awful bit of our history today that took place 10 years ago tomorrow. Here are my opinions on this military led poorly planned and disastrously
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1/ Footage of Minneapolis police killing #GeorgeFloyd has again focused international attention on violence by law enforcement and the failures of police reform. It’s a deep-seated and widespread problem, including
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At the highest level, the Kenosha Polices' aggressive treatment of Jacob Blake ending in deadly force and the same police departments' kindness towards Kyle Rittenhouse prior to the shooting shows
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1/ I'm pinning this in response to two private messages from two men telling me that I'm "encouraging" racism in my tweet about the misrepresentation of Britain's past in television
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reflecting on this further: what's happening to me is fucked up. i am continuing to be punished for daring to say that some leftist fuck can't rape me, and his
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I used to watch riots in African American communities and thought, oh that is not the right way to do this. I’m wrong. There is no right way. And my
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